EH in egcs

[Alexandre Oliva]

H J Lu writes:

> In this case, "throw 1" just makes bar out of scope.

Now assume throw 1 is inside a function call.  1 must be considered
thrown before bar is destructed since, while bar.foo::~foo() is
running, std::uncaught_exception() must return true.  There's no way
you can cope with this unless there's a stack of pending exceptions.

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